slump /slʌmp/noun 10verb 6forms 3phrases 1 noun10 •A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. •A period of poor performance.If she doesn't pull out of her slump, her job may be in jeopardy. •(slang) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months. MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that." — 2004 •A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope. •A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed. •A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove. •A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)The biggest slump in the world - a mega-slump - is in the Russian taiga. Known as the Batagaika crater, it is a kilometre-long gash in the ground, about 70 metres deep, and growing[…] — 2022 •(dialect, UK) A boggy place.The road was all slumps of holes. — 1880 •(Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. •(Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump. verb6 •To collapse heavily or helplessly.Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa. •To decline or fall off in activity or performance.Real estate prices slumped during the recession. •To slouch or droop. •To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. — 1678 •(slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill. •To lump; to throw together messily.These different groups[…]are exclusively slumped together under that sense. — 1857 formsslumped · slumping · slumps Phrases with slump slump downTo lie or fall down in a tired or lazy manner
